Notes at a Meeting of Delegates toThe Second All-Russia Congress of Communist Organisations of the Peoples of the East[1]

Meeting 21/XI.1919

Written:November 21, 1919Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIV.

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[1]Thiscongress, convened by the Central Bureau of Communist
Organisations of the Peoples of the East under the C.C., R.C.P.(B.), was
held in Moscow from November 22 to December 3, 1919. On the eve of the
congress, November 21, a preliminary meeting of Central Committee members
with a group of delegates was held with Lenin presiding. The congress was
attended by 71 voting delegates and 11 delegates with a consultative
voice. On the opening day of the congress Lenin delivered a report on the
current situation (see present edition, Vol. 30, pp. 151-62). The
resolution adopted on his report was submitted to the pre-sidium for
concretisation and drafting of the chief theses that should serve as a
basis for work in the East”. The congress heard the report on the work of
the Central Bureau of Communist Organ-isations of the Peoples of the East,
reports from the local areas, the report of the Central Moslem Military
Collegiurn and others. The congress outlined the tasks in the field of
Party and Soviet work in the East and elected a new Central Bureau.